You have to learn / to hear the scratchings / of the creatures at your back / and let them drift forward / until you see them in the thicket of your mind.

Selected Poems

 
 

“Leeches”

CV2 The Animal Issue 45.4

Spring 2023

 

“Peony”

The New Quarterly issue 167, Summer 2023.

See my “Finding the Form”, a “making-of” post, on The New Quarterly’s blog here.

 
 

“The Hour for Petting Dogs”

Prairie Fire issue 42.1,

Spring 2021.

 

“Light Touches”

The New Quarterly issue 155, Summer 2020.

See my “Finding the Form”, a “making-of” post, on The New Quarterly’s blog here.

 
 
 
 

“Carina”

Prism issue 58.2, Winter 2020.

 

“Field Guide”

The Dalhousie Review issue 99.3, Autumn 2019.